Eric Whittaker was in a coma – he died handcuffed to his bed days later
In 2017, Eric Whittaker died in hospital after suffering an aneurysm in his cell. The recent inquest into his death has raised further questions.
Morrison cut funding and ignored fire chiefs before NSW blaze
Morrison offered ‘thoughts and prayers’ to the victims of bushfires, but he also cut funding and ignored the concerns of fire chiefs prior to the blaze.
Morrison’s consumer boycott crackdown erodes our democracy
Fossil fuel divestment is the act of consumers using their wallets to force companies to invest more responsibly. Scott Morrison sees this as a threat to the nation.
The ‘Bird of the Year’ poll has been hijacked by politics, because of course it has
Proving that we can’t have nice things, The Guardian’s meaningless Bird Logie has devolved into a partisan squabble.
On the death of Ivan Milat: Stranger danger, jailbreak bells and the genesis of fear
With Ivan Milat dying in a prison hospital, I’m reminded of my youth, one of “stranger danger”, 90’s earworms and pre-Internet innocence. But was life really better back then?
